1) "I can't believe I hit the Montauk on the first-day vacancy. Nobody picked it! Since I don't have the whiskers to own this job, I'm going to put a hold-down on it for the rest of the week. Some times the List works in strange ways!"

ALCO C420 units 222 through 229, before they were banished to freight. They had a timer connected to the brake pipe recharge valve that prevented instant recharging of brake pipe pressure after an emergency application. Also, the ride quality was like being on top of a giant slinky standing erect. They leaned a lot in curves.

K&K is highly versed in such things, and I eagerly look forward to a book some time in the future. I can vouch for this, some of the old farts who taught me Hall mentioned this as well. Jay and Hall were so big as to merit levermen, and so portions of the interlocking board had letters painted on them to denote various routes that the train director would shout out to the leverman. One such route was "S to O", and it stood for Southern Road. A brief explanation followed about the various lines that were part of the LIRR, but I was brand new, bewildered by the mess of paint on the board, and having to learn this from some truly eccentric characters, so alas I can't recall the specifics.

krispy wrote:K&K is highly versed in such things, and I eagerly look forward to a book some time in the future. I can vouch for this, some of the old farts who taught me Hall mentioned this as well. Jay and Hall were so big as to merit levermen, and so portions of the interlocking board had letters painted on them to denote various routes that the train director would shout out to the leverman. One such route was "S to O", and it stood for Southern Road. A brief explanation followed about the various lines that were part of the LIRR, but I was brand new, bewildered by the mess of paint on the board, and having to learn this from some truly eccentric characters, so alas I can't recall the specifics.

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